Two Śaiva teachers of the sixteenth century. Nigamajñāna I and his disciple Nigamajñāna II.

T. Ganesan, IFP - Publications Hors série n° 9, 2009, xviii, 274 p.
Language: English. 600 Rs (22 €) ISBN: 978-81-8470-169-2

This book is a complete analytical study of all the œuvres of Nigamajñāna I and his nephew-cum-disciple Nigamajñāna II. This study aims at bringing to limelight the great contributions made by these two teachers in the sixteenth century for the consolidation, elaboration and propagation of the Śaivasiddhānta religious system and philosophical doctrines.

For the first time the contents of all the available texts of these two Śaiva teachers in Sanskrit and Tamil, of which many are unpublished, are completely and critically analysed with a view to fully bring out the richness of these texts in their totality and their value in the propagation of Śaivasiddhānta during one of the most crucial periods in Indian history.

Keywords: śaivasiddhānta, ritual, compilation, āgama